‘Show me what?’

He straightened his shirt, then turned back to face her. ‘I’ll take you to meet her. You can see for yourself why I don’t want my mother anywhere near our wedding.’

* * *

The car came to a stop outside an immaculate two-storey house in a quiet Athenian suburb.

No sooner had the engine been turned off than Christian got out, not bothering to wait for the driver to open the door for him.

The entire drive had been conducted in silence, Christian sitting ramrod-straight, only the whiteness of his knuckles betraying what lay beneath his skin.

It was a demeanour Alessandra had never seen from him before. It unnerved her.

That he’d cancelled his first appointment of the day had unnerved her even more; that, and the grim way he’d said, ‘Let’s get it over with.’

was with a deep sense of dread that she followed him out of the car and

door, lines all over her weathered face, her thin lips clamped

she turned on her heel and walked back inside, leaving the door

house itself was pristine, a strong smell of

a beautiful home was nothing

through her when Alessandra said, ‘Hárika ya

the immaculate kitchen, where the stench of bleach was

speaking harshly to him in quick-fire Greek, whatever she said enough to make the pulse in his jawline throb. When he replied, his answers were short but measured. At one point he seemed to be the one doing the talking rather than the listening, his words making Elena dart her blue eyes to the stranger in the midst, a

years, Alessandra had never sat in such a poisonous atmosphere as this, or

something almost unhinged in Elena Markos’s demeanour. Her eyes were the same blue as Christian’s but were like a frozen winter morning without

imagining being raised by this woman made her skin feel as icy as Elena’s eyes. But Christian couldn’t leave it to

Christian eschewed any form of emotional entanglement

their many conversations at Mikolaj’s taverna. She’d said the name Markos stood for guts and determination but had not appreciated then exactly how great his determination must

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